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Determining students' intent to stay in it programs: an empirical model

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel doctoral consortium and research table of contents

Charlottesville, VA, USA

SESSION: Curriculum table of contents

Pages 5-11

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-069-2

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Tracy L. Lewis	Radford University, Radford, VA, USA
Wanda J. Smith	Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
France Bélanger	Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
K. Vernard Harrington	Radford University, Radford, VA, USA

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SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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Current declining enrollment and attrition trends in IT programs have inspired an emerging body of literature: IT student retention. To shed some insight on whom leaves and stays in IT programs, the authors developed a new construct, computing resilience, and explored its influence on intent to stay and emotional intelligence. This study also investigated the linkage between ethnic identity, emotional intelligence, and IT student intent to stay. It was found that ethnic identity and computing resilience influence student retention through emotional intelligence. Implications for these findings for IT faculty, students, and administrators are discussed.

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